For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.